Crossword-Solution: PIBROCH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pibroch | n. | A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “PIBROCH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A form of music for Scottish bagpipes | 1 answer |
| Elaborate Scottish music for bagpipes | 1 answer |
| Music for the bagpipe. | 1 answer |
| form of bagpipe music | 1 answer |
| SCOTTISH bagpipe music | 2 answers |
| Bagpipe | 12 answers |
| bagpipe music | 12 answers |
| Bagpiper | 19 answers |
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Sentences with PIBROCH (5)
According to the unofficial but carefully considered programme, the pipers ought to have ceased their melody; but, whether inspired by ecstatic loyalty or because the Tulliwuddle pibroch took longer to perform than had been anticipated, they continued to skirl with such vigor that expostulations passed entirely unheard.
Thus with noise and smoke, and trumpets blowing the charge or the recall, and our pipes shrieking the pibroch high above the din, with dust floating and plaster dropping from the walls of my cell till I was wellnigh stifled, the day wore on, nor could I tell, in anywise, how the battle went.
The wild wailings of the pibroch were heard at times, interchanged with the drums and fifes, which beat the Dead March.
During dinner the piper in full costume was playing the pibroch in a gallery outside the window, and after he had done a band, also in full Highland dress, played some of the Italian, German as well as Scotch music, at just an agreeable distance.
Evan, a little disconcerted at having missed his mark, when he meant to have displayed peculiar dexterity, covered his confusion by whistling part of a pibroch as he reloaded his piece, and proceeded in silence up the pass.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1962).